If you’ve ever used the Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator or consulted The Exchange Preferred Architecture you’ll be very familiar with the work of our guest, Ross Smith IV. Nic and Warren caught up Ross to talk about his 19-year tenure at Microsoft and his new role in Intune Engineering, giving us a sneak peak into some of the innovation we can look forward to in Outlook for iOS and Android.

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There is no denying that the only constant with cloud services is change, the nature and rate of this change often brings about some interesting challenges for organizations. We sat down with Anna Donnelly to talk about organizational change management, driving user adoption and how a sound change management strategy is essential to the success of your cloud adoption project.

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Governance is a big word and is a concept that is often thrown around. It seems to confuse a lot of organizations, even those who have successfully navigated the cultural and technology changes often brought on by cloud adoption. The ‘on by default’ nature of many cloud services has made it even more important for organizations to plan their governance strategy before adopting these services, so we sat down with Antonio Maio to talk about the need for governance and why it isn’t something that should be overlooked.

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I recently came across an interesting issue when attempting to enable DKIM for a domain in Exchange Online. When accessing the DKIM options via the Exchange Admin Center, I didn’t have the option to enable DKIM, instead saw the “No DKIM keys saved for this domain” message shown in the screenshot below:
Fortunately, we are able to manage DKIM configuration via PowerShell. Once connected to Exchange Online, you can list the DKIM cmdlets using Get-Command:

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Get-Command-Moduletmp_dmwhjqj3.m1c*dkim*

We can use New-DkimSigningConfig cmdlet to enable DKIM for a particular domain:

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New-DkimSigningConfig-DomainNamedomain.com-Enabled$True

Once run, you’ll notice that the Exchange Admin Center will now show DKIM as enabled for the domain. If you haven’t already, you’ll also need to create the relevant DNS records to ensure that DKIM functions correctly. The following records will be required:

The Internet of things (IoT) seems to be everywhere these days. Anything from connected light bulbs and door bells to sensors that monitor and report the drying and curing of concrete in real time, there seems to be an IoT solution for every problem but IoT is so much more than just a sensor connected to a Raspberry PI. Microsoft’s Anthony Bartolo sat down with us at Ignite to explain what IoT is, why IT Pros should pay attention and how to get started.

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In this episode we talk with Program Manager Elisabeth Olson and Principle Program Manager Rob Lowe. They both work with the Azure Active Directory teams at Microsoft and they give us some amazing insight into how Azure AD works.

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Documentation is something we all rely on, especially in today’s rapidly changing cloud world where the only constant seems to be change. Perhaps I’m a little obsessive, but I constantly use Microsoft’s documentation to confirm things, even when I already know the answer. Like many people though, I never really considered what goes into making sure I have something to refer to and keeping it up to date with all the change going on. Nicolas and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Brenda Carter and Joe Davies from the Microsoft Documentation Team at Ignite recently to talk about how they do what they do, how you can help and what it takes to be a technical writer.

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Diversity and inclusion in tech was one of the powerful themes at Microsoft Ignite this year and I’m excited to see if get bigger every year. Nicolas had the distinct privilege of being able to sit down with Phoummala Schmitt, a.k.a Exchange Goddess to talk about diversity in tech, community and her new role at Microsoft. The episode was also sketched by the wonderfully talented Luise Freese.

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